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. Perhaps the major political issue of to-day was a reconciliation between private enterprise and voluntary organisation and public enterprise, said Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham. Deedes, vice-chairman of the British National Council of Social Service, in a recent address. In certain other countries this question had largely resolved itself, and private enterprise, trade unionism, and so on had been superseded by a single authoritarian discipline. We British imagined we were perfectly safe from anything of that kind, but if we remained indifferent to what was going on around us we should wake up to find ourselves deprived of that sphere of influence and activity which every private individual should have in any country that claimed to call itself democratic. The strength of England was in its multiplicity of voluntary institutions, and if the machinery of government broke down in Whitehall it would run on the circumference, whereas in the totalitarian States the whole machinery would stop working.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 16, 28 February 1939, Page 4
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